水同位素比率反映了对流强度,而不是泛热带地区的雨水类型比例
Wusheng Yu1, Rong Guo1,2, Lonnie G Thompson3
1State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Science advances
|August 14, 2024
概括
一个新的理论表明,降水同位素比率反映了降雨类型. 然而,这项研究发现同位素比率与对流强度相关,而不是降雨类型的比例,在不同时间尺度上的热带地区.
科学领域:
- 气候学 气候学 气候学
- 水文学的水文学
- 同位素地球化学 同位素地球化学
背景情况:
- 最近的一项理论提出,降水同位素比率表明雨水类型的比例,在对流性降水中比率更高,在层状降水中比率更低.
- 这一理论已经获得了引力,但面临着关于其广泛适用性和数据解释的早期怀疑.
研究的目的:
- 重新评估关于将降水同位素比例与雨水类型比例联系起来的拟议理论的有效性.
- 研究水同位素比率与不同时间尺度和热带地区的地理位置的降水特征之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 从热带地区的不同地点分析降水同位素比率.
- 同位素数据与气象变量进行比较,包括对流强度和降雨类型 (对流与分层).
- 在每日,每月和每年的时间尺度上对理论预测的评估.
主要成果:
- 结果与理论相矛盾,表明降水同位素比率与对流强度有很强的相关性,而不是雨水类型的比例.
- 层状沉同位素比率表现出广泛的值范围,破坏了理论的前提.
- 该理论展示了弱点,包括潜在的优先数据选择,在每日,每月和每年的时间表上.
结论:
- 提出的理论将降水同位素比例与雨水类型比例联系起来,并没有得到更广泛的热带观测的支持.
- 降水中的水同位素信号主要是由对流强度驱动的.
- 未来的理论需要在广泛接受之前在不同地点和时间范围内进行严格的验证.
相关概念视频
The Water Cycle
24.3K
The Earth’s hydrosphere includes all of the areas where the storage and movement of water occurs. Since water is the basis of all living processes, the cycling of water is extremely important to ecosystem dynamics.
24.3K
Mass Spectrometry: Isotope Effect
2.0K
Most elements exist in nature as a mixture of isotopes. The isotopes differ in weight due to their respective number of neutrons. The molecular weight of a molecule is different depending on the specific isotope of its elements involved. As a result, the mass spectrum of the molecule exhibits peaks from the same fragment at multiple positions. The positions of these mass signals depend on the difference between the molecular mass. Furthermore, the intensity of these signals is dependent on the...
2.0K
Global Climate Change
24.3K
Throughout its ~4.5 billion year history, the Earth has experienced periods of warming and cooling. However, the current drastic increase in global temperatures is well outside of the Earth’s cyclic norms, and evidence for human-caused global climate change is compelling. Paleoclimatology, the study of ancient climate conditions, provides ample evidence for human-caused global climate change by comparing recent conditions with those in the past.
24.3K
Isothermal Processes
3.6K
A thermodynamic process that occurs at constant temperature is called an isothermal process. Heat slowly flows into the system or out of the system to maintain thermal equilibrium. Processes involving phase changes like water evaporation into steam or freezing water into ice at a constant temperature are examples of Isothermal Processes.
An ideal gas can also undergo isothermal expansion or compression.
For example, consider 1 mole of an ideal gas inside an isolated cylinder at initial volume V...
An ideal gas can also undergo isothermal expansion or compression.
For example, consider 1 mole of an ideal gas inside an isolated cylinder at initial volume V...
3.6K
Precipitation Gravimetry
5.6K
Precipitation gravimetry is based on converting an analyte into a sparingly soluble precipitate, which is separated by filtration and weighed. An ideal precipitate should be pure, insoluble, of known composition, and easily filtered from the reaction mixture.
In determining nickel by gravimetric analysis, a precipitant of ethanolic dimethylglyoxime is added to a hot nickel salt solution. This is quickly followed by the dropwise addition of dilute ammonia solution until precipitation occurs. A...
In determining nickel by gravimetric analysis, a precipitant of ethanolic dimethylglyoxime is added to a hot nickel salt solution. This is quickly followed by the dropwise addition of dilute ammonia solution until precipitation occurs. A...
5.6K
Isochoric and Isobaric Processes
3.4K
A thermodynamic process that occurs at constant volume is called an isochoric process. According to the first law of thermodynamics, heat supplied or removed from the system is partially utilized to perform work and change the internal energy of the system. However, in an isochoric process, the volume remains constant. Hence, the work done by the system is zero. Therefore, the exchange of heat changes the internal energy of the system only.
Suppose 1000 g of water is heated from 40...
Suppose 1000 g of water is heated from 40...
3.4K


